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* Inverted in an issue of ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' where Cliff Baker watches his dad's movie on his phone. The art is actually better and smoother in the movie.

** Producer "kane west" ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS not to be confused with]] [[Music/KanyeWest that other guy]]; he's actually Gus Lobban, one of the members of pop trio Music/KeroKeroBonito) probably revels in this trope the most out of the PC Music crew, making crude, clunky [[HouseMusic house music]] out of basic MIDI instruments. Even his imagery is cheap, with the cover of his [[https://soundcloud.com/pcmus/western-beats "Western Beats" EP]] being [[MinimalisticCoverArt black text on a white background of his name.]] ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking In Comic Sans.]]''

** Producer "kane west" ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS not to be confused with]] [[Music/KanyeWest that other guy]]; he's actually Gus Lobban, one of the members of pop trio Music/KeroKeroBonito) probably revels in this trope to its logical extreme, with crude "dance" music composed of MIDI instruments and clunky compositions. Even his imagery is cheap, with the cover of his [[https://soundcloud.com/pcmus/western-beats "Western Beats" EP]] being [[MinimalisticCoverArt black text on a white background of his name.]] ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking In Comic Sans.]]''

* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' has a section in the first volume where Emp, currently in a rough patch with her boyfriend, decides to work one out with various fanfictions she's found about the Superhomeys. They're uniformly terrible, with a massive amount of MillsAndBoonProse, baffling character writing, and some very weird choices in general--at one point, Emp snarks that she didn't realize "nubile" had an adverbial form.

* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' has a section in the first volume where Emp, currently in a rough patch with her boyfriend, decides to work one out with various fanfictions she's found about the Superhomeys. They're uniformly terrible, with a massive amount of MillsAndBoonProse, baffling character writing, and some very weird choices in general--at one point, Emp snarks at the use of the word "nubilely."

* Music/CaptainBeefheart's ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'', a cacophony of jumbled instrumentation, odd lyrics, and terrible singing that sounds like it was recorded in a basement by a group of high schoolers who don't even know how to play their instruments. Turns out that Captain Beefheart wanted it to sound that way on purpose, as he had his band maticulously reherse the album to a disturbing degree to sound terrible.

->''"Making something that is bad on purpose - and not bad inadvertently, which is my usual process - is a whole-body thrill. It goes hard against every natural instinct to write this way. It has the delicious and irresistible texture of '''sin.'''"''

* The trailer for the Dalek movie at the beginning of the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio drama ''Jubilee'' is ridiculously over-the-top and involves a lot of very large explosions, as a send-up of Hollywood movies.

* Camille Saint-Saëns's ''Carnival of the Animals'' has a movement titled "Pianists", in which the two pianists tediously perform five-fingered exercises and scales... as if they were beginners.

* TerribleArtist ("bad" drawing)

* PacManFever (technologically "bad" video games)

For InUniverse examples It's been suggested by various movie critics that this is done solely because it would be irritating to the viewer and humiliating to the writer if the story within was a lot more interesting than the story around it (though an enterprising author could [[{{Defictionalization}} release it as a spin-off]], not unlike the real-life ''[[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Radioactive Man]]'' comics), so they do what they can to kill it while retaining its purpose.

* It's no accident that "Music to Delight" by Creator/KevinMacLeod sounds so off and terrible.

* The video to [["Kimi Ni Mune Kyun" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDtXzU_t4ds]] by Music/YellowMagicOrchestra is this, consisting primarily of the group's three members (all respected synth and rock musicians who were, at their youngest, just over 30) doing the barest minimum token effort to look like a boy band through the medium of bored, resentful dorky dad dancing.

* "My Humps" by the Music/BlackEyedPeas was ''supposed'' to be this, a parody of overtly sexualized songs sung by female artists flaunting their figures. It didn't work. Then Music/AlanisMorissette [[CoveredUp covered it]] and it worked ''spectacularly'' well.

* StylisticSuck/{{Webcomics}}

** Her Website/{{Instagram}} edits as of 2014 (and those of her fans she post on her account) are [[http://instagram.com/p/w5XYk-QzLr/?modal=true very deliberately poorly photoshopped and filled with surrealistic humor]], in an extension of her ''Bangerz''-era artwork/tour graphics. She seems to delight in riling up trolls and cyberbullies on social media this way.

[[caption-width-right:315:[[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma where doing it man]][softreturn] [[MemeticMutation where MAKING THIS HAPEN]]]]

* The Surfsiders were a group of studio musicians hired in 1965 to rush out an album of Music/BeachBoys covers to cash in on the Beach Boys' growing fame: said album was regarded as SoBadItsGood among record collectors and Beach Boys fans due to the off-key barbershop harmonies and chintzy production. In 2012, a group calling themselves The New Surfsiders formed to parody the album by exaggerating the flaws of its performances and arrangements for comic effect: The Surfsiders' album reused the same saxophone riff (in a different key) twice, so The New Surfsiders incorporate this same riff somewhere in ''every'' song as a RunningGag. The Surfsiders did an [[LyricalDissonance inappropriately cheery-sounding]] version of melancholy ballad "The Warmth Of The Sun", so The New Surfsiders did an uptempo, twist-style version of the even more melancholy ballad "Till I Die".

** ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'': In Bizarro World, newspapers include children crayon doodles instead of pictures, fitting with the backwards nature of the SelfDemonstrating/{{Bizarro}}s.

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Where a work is made in an intentionally bad style either InUniverse or not. [[BadBadActing The most conspicuous aspect of this is the dialog, in which one can expect the characters to speak in a stilted, mechanical tone for no apparent reason at all.]]

A medium or ShowWithinAShow or other MetaFiction is presented in an intentionally bad style. [[BadBadActing The most conspicuous aspect of this is the dialog, in which one can expect the characters to speak in a stilted, mechanical tone for no apparent reason at all.]]

This is much easier to distinguish from SoBadItsGood when it's applied to a ShowWithinAShow, or when other works by the author are of better quality.

UnabashedBMovieFan is related, though in that case the focus is on the audience of the ShowWithinAShow rather than on its writer. See also RuleOfFunny. This is often the result of an AmateurFilmMakingPlot. It can also overlap with OnlyOneFindsItFun for when one character doesn't see how bad it is.

It's been suggested by various movie critics that this is done solely because it would be irritating to the viewer and humiliating to the writer if the story within was a lot more interesting than the story around it (though an enterprising author could [[{{Defictionalization}} release it as a spin-off]], not unlike the real-life ''[[ComicBook/TheSimpsons Radioactive Man]]'' comics), so they do what they can to kill it while retaining its purpose.

May overlap with ThePowerOfActing.

Compare: {{Jerkass}} (people with "bad" manners) {{Villains}} ("bad" people) IneffectualSympatheticVillain / MinionWithAnFInEvil (villains who are "bad" at being evil) HeroWithAnFInGood (heroes who are "bad" at being good)

** In episode 183, the opening is redone to look as though it was drawn in MS Paint after an in-universe example of AuthorExistenceFailure leaves the show without an animator.

->''Making something that is bad on purpose - and not bad inadvertently, which is my usual process - is a whole-body thrill. It goes hard against every natural instinct to write this way. It has the delicious and irresistible texture of '''sin.'''''